September 19, 2004
Of POV and Rays
So I've been effing around with POVRay again lately, since I have an excuse to use it at work now, and because it's totally the easiest 3D rendering program to use and also the stupidest thing ever.
See, POVRay has this totally shitty new feature called "photon mapping," and what it basically simulates is actual particles of light being refracted, and occasionally dispersed, through shit. Like glass. Or clouds. Or a glass ball that contains clouds. Here's an example of what I mean:
That's totally gay, right? Jesus christ, no wonder POVRay is free, and Maya's like 50 billion dollars. You can even adjust the amount of dispersion. So, by turning it off, all those stupid rainbows go away and you're left with a totally shitty looking this:
Oh, and I don't think I can talk about radiosity without vomiting.
That's actually not the best example of what radiosity can do, since it's way lamer when you've got like 30 objects in a scene and they can all light each other with only a single light source.
One last thing. POVRay's got this super homosex feature that lets you test to see if an object is inside another (or inside a bounding box, or sphere, or cock-shape, or whatever). That means you totally can't do shit like randomly place an infinte number of objects and make sure they don't intersect. I mean, who'd want to do that, right?
Pfashhh. More like POVGay.
Posted by It Rhymes with 'Alex' at September 19, 2004 12:41 AM|
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good thing all you did was render out queers, i mean spheres. Posted by yes, sarcasm can be fun and educational at September 19, 2004 09:04 AM |
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can you make a giant ice monster? and maybe have him in a room with a fire monster, that would look neat. Posted by erik at September 19, 2004 09:13 AM |
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Me too. Posted by A vagina at September 19, 2004 11:34 AM |
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I should have used me in stead as a test shape, since ultimately I was trying to simulate the inside of a marble, which is totally not spherical shaped. Posted by A Penis at September 19, 2004 10:29 PM |